MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall

A MagicMirror module that listens to Alexa through AWS IoT, displays whatever you ask for, and starts or stops other modules by voice command.

Mirror Mirror is a module for MagicMirror, the smart mirror platform. It uses the AWS IoT Device Gateway to receive commands from Alexa, then displays text, images, or a video on the mirror and turns other MagicMirror modules on or off according to what it heard. The project is written in JavaScript under the MIT license.

Nothing works until two things are in place. You have to set up Alexa, and you have to install the companion MirrorMirrorOnTheWall Alexa Skill, following the linked instructions. Configuration happens in the main config file, and the README notes that you only add variables if you want to change a standard value.

With the skill set up, you start by saying Alexa, start On The Wall, or Mirror Mirror On The Wall if you changed the wake word. Display text commands take the form say something, display text of something, or show text of something. Image commands search the text in braces through a Google Image Search API and show the results with the text, so find snow white or show me pictures of dwarfs works. Video commands route through the Youtube Data API and autoplay on loop. Module control is mapped through a names file that turns official module names into spoken ones, MMM-Globe to globe, currentweather to current weather, and then start, turn on, open, close, turn off, and finish trigger those modules. There are also commands to open or close every module at once, and the README notes that turning the module itself off clears whatever it is showing.

The module's whole personality is in the commands: voice phrases that map to a mirror doing something visible, from a greeting to a looped video to a module switching on.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README